Bordeaux The awakening of the sleeping beauty (97 images)

Bordeaux, once nicknamed "Sleeping Beauty," is finally out of its torpor and with the creation of new districts and the imminent inauguration of the City of Wine is now an explosion of creativity.
The middle class is defined and it turns out artistic. The imagined prisoner of his classicism and is more than ever projected into the future. What is the reason exactly the revival of Bordeaux? Elected in 2016 by the New York Times ranked second among world destinations...more »

Bordeaux, once nicknamed "Sleeping Beauty," is finally out of its torpor and with the creation of new districts and the imminent inauguration of the City of Wine is now an explosion of creativity.
The middle class is defined and it turns out artistic. The imagined prisoner of his classicism and is more than ever projected into the future. What is the reason exactly the revival of Bordeaux? Elected in 2016 by the New York Times ranked second among world destinations "unavoidable", the city attracts investors and tourists. Its elegant facades of the eighteenth century, the Opera House and the "boutique" hotels are combining harmoniously with the hectic bustle of the students who flock day and night lively rue Sainte Catherine and the riverfront recently renovated. It seems that here the sun shines three hundred and fifty hours more than in Paris.
At the station Saint Jean, a large sign indicates a countdown of the four hundred ninety-four days left before the day the TGV link in only two cities to the French capital. But the study there is also a possible direct connection to London via Eurostar. Business is business. The TGV will arrive in 2017, but Bordeaux is being worked through for some time to the beat definitely supported.
In the last twenty years, with the arrival of Alain Juppé to the City in 1995, the city has been transformed. "The next president of the Republic," as it is called by some, has launched a very ambitious urban renewal project, inaugurated in 2003 with the creation of a tramway that has reduced the flow of cars in the most central streets. Beautiful facades in the eighteenth century stone, blackened by time, have regained their former glory and thanks to a complete facelift the city today is more radiant than ever and does talk about ', its art of living and the tranquility of its old Town boasting no less than three hundred forty-seven buildings listed on the register of historic monuments.« less